Alexa Can Send SMS Messages Now

If your hands are busy and you want to inform your friend that you're running late, then you can say "Alexa, text Jon", and then dictate your message.

This feature now sends SMS messages only to Androidphones, because Apple is not offering its messaging APIs to third-parties. If the recipient of said message owns an Echo, he/she will receive it through Amazon's Alexa messaging service. Also, the new feature would work only if the user has the Alexa app installed on an Android phone, and the smartphone is linked with the Alexa device.

With the same smart-assistant capabilies as the other Echo products, Amazon is hoping for the Spot to be seen as another entry-point into their smart-device ecosystem. If so, you've got a new feature to try out.

'Alexa, set the mood, ' one user asked as he uncorked a bottle of wine for his guests.

Alexa can now switch to a British accent, as well as, German. You can send them to any SMS-supporting devices, including iPhones.

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Soros has been a consistent critic of Trump who is also in Davos, the first US president to attend since Bill Clinton in 2000. Soros suggested that this sort of manipulation "already played an important role in the 2016 U.S.

And as intense protests spread across Rajasthan, the release of the film got delayed, waiting for censor's clearance till now. The petition has requested the court to review its order that lifted the ban on the government-imposed ban on the movie.

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Rather than being a piece of a jigsaw filling in the gaps in dinosaur history, it is more like "a corner piece", said Dr Gorscak. Mansourasaurus , be that as it may, was moderately little for a titanosaur, and about the heaviness of an African bull elephant.

Currently, the Apple Store app makes no mention of the speaker, but we do expect it to appear once the preorder floodgates open. Until we're able to test it further, there's no way to know whether HomePod's fantastic sound quality outweighs the downsides.

The airline has a 2020/20 target where 20 percent of new pilots will be women by 2020, up from 6 percent in 2015. That's a 48% increase on the previous year and takes the proportion of easyJet new entrant female pilots to 13%.

Recapitalisation of banks under the PCA framework will allow them to reduce the NPAs as well as improve capital ratios. The recap plan would enable additional credit offtake capacity of PSBs by more than Rs 5 lakh crore, Kumar claimed.

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